Help! Name change dilemma

I know I still have almost 4 months to go before I get my new name, but I've already started thinking about a new email address. After all, I won't be adsouto anymore. I will be adyuen. However, that email address has already been taken as there are many, many more Yuens in the world than there are Soutos. With that in mind, please participate in my new poll to pick a new email address. If you have other ideas, please vote "other" and leave a comment. Thanks for all the help!

Weather conditions

Today, I am wearing leggings, knee-high socks, regular socks, boots, jeans, a long sleeve t-shirt, and a turtleneck knit sweater. When I go outside, I will add leather gloves, a winter coat, a scarf and a knit winter hat.

Tomorrow afternoon, I will be wearing jeans, a t-shirt and flip-flops. I could wear shorts, but they are packed away for the winter.

Today I am in New York City. It is 20 degrees but feels like 8.

Tomorrow, I will be in Scottsdale, AZ. It will be 75 degrees and feel like 75 degrees.

Do you think it is the meteorologist who mathematically figures out "feels like" using factors like wind speed, pressure and humidity? Or, do you think it is the assistant meteorologist who walks outside and says, "hmm... feels like X"? My money's on the former, but I love the idea of the latter.

in another life...

I would like to be

* a National Geographic wildlife photographer
* a professional ballerina
* a board game developer
* a marine mammal trainer
* an actress
* a forensic anthropologist

No longer "under the law"

I often felt I lacked a good answer to why Christians don't follow all the Old Testament law anymore. I know that Christ came to fulfill the requirements of the law, but there are many laws that we still rely on to govern what is right and what is wrong. I really liked my pastor's explanation. Tim Keller said, "We also recognize that many parts of the Old Testament law no longer relate directly to us as believers. Since Jesus is the ultimate priest, temple, and sacrifice, we observe none of the ceremonial, dietary, and other laws connected to ritual purity. Also, Christians of all nations are now members of the people of God, and God’s community no longer exists as a single nation-state under a theocratic government. Therefore, the ‘civil legislation’ of the Old Testament is no longer appropriate. Adultery in the Old Testament was punishable by a death, but in the New Testament it is dealt with through exhortation and church discipline (1 Corinthians 6-7.)... The law of God simply shows us what human beings were built to do—to worship God alone, to love their neighbors as themselves, to tell the truth, keep their promises, forgive everything, act with justice. When we move against these laws we move against our own natures and happiness. Disobedience to God sets up strains in the fabric of reality that can only lead to break down."